[Illustration:  Institution at Malua, Samoa.]

Thus it is that not only on the Sabbath but through the week, not only in the pulpit but in the school, the market, the private house, in a boat, under a spreading tree, our brethren expound and enforce that Gospel which shall sanctify and govern the hearts of many nations.  Thus it is in the cities of China and India, in the villages of Africa, among the swamps of Guiana, beneath the palm groves of Samoa, they seek to be instant in season and out of season.  Some are pastors of churches, others preach almost entirely to the heathen.  Some are training students in seminaries.  Some superintend a range of simple schools; others, in Indian cities, give large time and effort to the important Institutions taught in the English and Native languages.  A few are revising translations of the Bible; others are preparing commentaries, school-books, and other Christian literature.  All have to share in building; and, besides the Medical missionaries, a great number constantly give medicine to the sick.  Here we see Dr. Turner, in the admirable seminary at Malua, training the Native Teachers; Mr. EDKINS and Mr. Muirhead penetrate the Mongolian desert, to inquire into the place and prospects of a Mission among the Tartar tribes; while Mr. John, after completing the new Hospital, is isolated within a vast sea, the overflowings of the mighty Yangtze, which has drowned half the streets of Hankow.  We see Mr. Ashton and Mr. Johnson, Mr. Coles and Mr. Blake, Mr. Hall and Mr. Rice, surrounded by the hundreds of their students and scholars, diligent in daily English studies.  We see the travancore brethren in the midst of their many agents; advising pastors, instructing catechists, reading evangelists’ journals, examining candidates, and auditing accounts; while, in their midst, Dr. Lowe and his seven students administer to their crowd of patients in the hospital that medicine which shall relieve their pain.  Dr. Mather re-edits the Hindustani Scriptures.  The brothers Stronach, fellow-labourers indeed in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ; still watch over the prosperous churches of Amoy, which they were honoured to found.  In the midst of barbarism, Mr. Moffat carefully revises that Sichuana Bible of which he was the first translator.  In the midst of civilization, after reading the proofs of the Chinese New Testament, Dr. Legge, consulting his learned pundits, dives deep into the ancient Chinese classics, and strives, by an erudite commentary, to make plain the early history of China.  While Mr. Lawes, who describes himself as the “poet laureate” of Savage Island, after completing the New Testament, prepares the first Christian hymn book, for the use of the converts he has brought to Christ.  Mr. Thompson, visiting the Missions in Cape Colony, drives with hard